The city of Novoyavorivsk, Lviv region, July 21, 1996. The video shows the fifth All-Ukrainian Festival of Children's and Youth Song “Young Galicia-96”.
The festival's qualifying competition was attended by 215 participants, with competitions in three age groups: junior, middle, and senior. The competition program featured 36 singers.
Younger group (9-12 years old): Andriy Burmytsky, Maryana Bilozir, Maria Zubkevych, Ruslan Silchenko, Olga Gorska, Mykhailo Khoma.
Middle group (13-15 years old): Halyna Halushko, Inna Korneliuk, Olesia Kyrychuk, Karina Tradadiuk, Dmytro Banov, Olga Kozlovska, Iryna Holubets, Maryna Smyrnova.
Senior group (16-21 years old): Lyudmila Moskal, Elena Radishevskaya, Irina Dolya, Gennady Donetsky, Natalia Buchinskaya, Annichka Voronchak, Ruslan Talabira.
The guests of the festival were the band “Skryabin”, Marian Shunevych, Anatoliy Matviychuk, Andriy Shtoiko, Tetiana Dmytriv, the dance group “Plastic Etude”, Taras Petrynenko and Tetiana Horobets.
Comments: festival participants Mariana Bilozir, Ruslan Silchenko, Olha Horska, Maria Zubkevych, Annychka Voronchak, Ruslan Talabira, Hennadiy Donetsky, Vitaliy Pavlik and others; Stepan Lukashyk, head of the festival's organizing committee, head of the Yavoriv district state administration; Andriy Murin, jury member and director of the Spivanochka-Jazochka Festival; jury members Bohdan Fedoryshyn and Stepan Datsiuk; Marian Shunevych, jury chairman; festival director Myroslav Turko and artistic director Oleh Turko.